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Robins Prize:

The Eighth RH Robins Prize of the Philological Society

ANNOUNCEMENT VALID UNTIL 1 NOVEMBER 2014

The Philological Society is delighted to launch the eighth R. H. Robins student Prize for an article on a linguistic topic that falls within the area of the Society's interests as defined by present and past publications in the Transactions of the Philological Society (TPhS).

The Prize will be awarded in open competition. The competition is open to any individual or individuals who was/were both: (i) registered students (at the time of submission); s/he/they should submit a letter from his/her/their supervisor, or from a person of similar standing, attesting to his/her/their status and that the submission is his/her/their own work); and, (ii) Members or Student Associate Members of the Society.

The article submission can (but need not) have been based on some part of a projected doctoral or masters dissertation. The submission should not have been published before (except possibly in a departmental working paper or the like), nor should it have been submitted for publication elsewhere.

The author(s) of the winning submission will receive a cash prize of £500 (shared equally between the authors of a jointly authored submission); the author(s) of the runner-up essay will receive a cash prize of £250 (again, shared equally as appropriate). Additionally, the prize-winning and runner-up submissions will be considered for publication in the Society's journal, the Transactions of the Philological Society, subject to the usual peer-review process. In making a submission, authors must undertake to give the Transactions first refusal to publish the article.

The prize will be awarded by PhilSoc Council on the recommendation of a prize committee formed from members of Council and selected peer-reviewers with the President in the Chair. In awarding the prize the Council will take into consideration the originality of the submission and the theoretical and/or empirical contribution it makes to the discipline. Council reserves the right not to award the prize if there are no submissions of sufficient merit.

The closing date for submissions is 1 November 2014. Submissions are to be written in English. They should not exceed (but need not be as long as) 10,000 words, including tables, figures, notes, appendices, references, etc. Submissions (in Word and PDF format) should be sent to the Society’s Secretary, Professor Paul Russell, by e-mail attachment, together with the letter mentioned in (i) above. The article should follow the TPhS style sheet. The style sheet can be downloaded by clicking on the link on the right.

The winner and runner-up will be announced at the Society's Annual General Meeting in June 2015.